Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …

productivity distribution - and their potential for productivity growth. It finds that laggards are on average younger and smaller … toward the productivity frontier, suggesting that the composition of the laggard group matters for future productivity. Yet … that there are barriers to technology and knowledge diffusion. This could help explain the much-debated productivity …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …